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General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American publicly traded aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of 2020, it was the fifth-largest defense contractor in the world by arms sales, and fifth largest in the United States by total sales. [2] The company is a Fortune 100 company, and was ranked No. 94 in 2022. [3]
In 1998 General Dynamics bought NASSCO in a $415 million deal. [18] On October 31, 2011, General Dynamics-NASSCO acquired Metro Machine Corp, a surface-ship repair company in Norfolk, Virginia, and renamed it NASSCO-Norfolk. [19] The company had been conducting ship repairs and conversions for the U.S. Navy since 1972.
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General Atomics was founded on July 18, 1955, in San Diego, California, by Frederic de Hoffmann with assistance from notable physicists Edward Teller and Freeman Dyson. [1] The company was originally part of the General Atomic division of General Dynamics "for harnessing the power of nuclear technologies". [2]
1996; 29 years ago (), in San Diego, California: Founder: Frank Kavanaugh: Defunct: 19 December 2011 Successor: General Dynamics Land Systems Headquarters ...
As for General Dynamics, the fourth part of this four-way dynamic could benefit most of all. GD's combat systems division would do the heavy lifting in building all these new rocket engines (I ...
The termination of the contract meant the end of the Convair Division and of General Dynamics' presence in San Diego, as well as the city's long aircraft-building tradition. The defense contractor once employed 18,000 people there, but after selling its divisions, that number is now zero.
English: As of 2024, this office building at 9715 Businesspark Avenue in the Scripps Ranch neighborhood of San Diego, California was home to the headquarters of the WD-40 Company. Photographed by user Coolcaesar on June 28, 2024.